Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-10

| the dangerous moon0eams, and spoke 10
each other softly and made of trivial
things a low-voiced mystery; and her
dark eyes dropped before the near eager
gaze of his brown ones. Oh. it was
very we'll that mamma was quite an in
val;l. They talked of the red cap that
lel 10 their acquaintance, but he said
that she looked more lovely with that
soft, white affair about her head, and
she was very glad he thought her lovely,
and foolishly told him so. After that,
perhaps, it was not strange that he
talked to "Genie," and maybe, it was
possible that once or twice his hand hap
pened to lie OH hers, and neither of them
seemed to know.
1t haG grown to De quite a serious
thing for both by the time New York
harbor was an immediate possibility;
and the last night ou., as they parted in
the sheltered corner, he held fast both
her hands, and, the two shadowed heads
on the deck melted into One-at any
rate, that is the way it looked, and Eu-
genie ran with hot, red cheeks to the
cabin.
The next morning all was hub-bub.
The hustle OF disembarking, the nervous
furry of righteous desire to evade the
custom officers, the collecting Of mislaid
baggage, all made the scene lively one.
Eugene was in her stateroom frantical-
ly trying to make one 5atchel do the
work of two, when rap at her door
was followed by NeiPs voice.
"Please do favor for me" he said,
in his emphatic way. "Wear this ring
off the boat for me. It's very valuable;
friend sent by me for it, but | don't
know"-with smiling eyes-"that shall
let him have it now. You wear it, and
I'll come to your hotel tonight for it
if [ must take it; but hOpe-you know
what, 'Genie!'
He was gone, and Eugene stood with
happy bushes on her fair face, clasp
ing tight the small package containing
the ring. Her ring it might be if she
said so, and was there any doubt what
she would say? She pressed it to her
lips.
Hurry, Genie" called a querulOus
voice, "hurry, child"
She started and tore open the package
with eager haste, bringing forth OH the
end of her finger ring. Her face fell.
What wretched little thing A cameo
of the cheapest variety, and considera-
bly, too large for her slender fingers.
"Worse than ordinary said Eugene.
"What does he mean by asking me to
wear such a paltry affair! Well, l don't
care" she decided, at last, "but he
needn't have said it was very valuable"
and it is greatly to be feared that
Eugenie's door shut forcibly after her.
The cuckoo on the clock in the hotel
parlor had just screeched for nine o'clock
when Neil ran up the stairs and tapped
on the door of the parlor allotted TO 81.
d. Grant, wife and daughter, Buffalo"
Very handsome and eager he looked,
and it is small wonder that Eug cnie
blushcd brightly as he took her hands.
"What a swell you are" he said, ad-
miring the white pillows Of lace that
fell about her, leaving bare the soft neck
and rounded arms. Chow much time
can you give me?
"Not much; it is time to go. But l
will see you tomorrow, won't |? Here
is your ring; I've been afraid | should
lose it, it is so large for me-"
She holds it out to him. He takes it
and with it both her hands.
"Then you will keep the other, 'Ge-
nie?" in anxious inquiry.
"The other. What other?" said Eu-
genie.
"Why, the diamond, Of course; what
do you suppose?"
"The diamond !" in dazed alnazement.
''There was no diamond"
He started moment and then laughed.
ooh! come now. That's Joke, and
I'll laugh at it by-and-by, but just now
| am more interested in something else
i'm you?"
"But there was no diamond-what do
Won mean by saving SOP" in wonder
meut.
Neil's face flushed, and his voice was
more than usually positive-almost
Extensively so, Eugene thought, as he
said:
ocYou know perfectly well what
mean and, forgive me, it is in rather
moor taste to continue that unwelcome
joke"
81 don't know what you are talking
about" she replied, with dignity. 81
wore your valuable ring; if there was
any diamond about It failed TO see it.
| shall have to wish you good evening,
SIR"
"Of course did not ask you to wear
this" in contemptuOus designation Of
the cameo. "It was simply in the pack
age with the other-the diamond that
YOU do not seem able to remember"
"How dare your cried angry Eu-
genie. You are telling falsehood.
Papa shall ~" "Papa!" in elevated hys-
teric voice as the door opened. she
saws have stolen a ring1' and snbsided
into crushed, fearful heap on the sofa.
Papa Grant was portly, pompous
gentleman, with a great deal of gold
watch cham across broad expanse of
white vest.
Very deliberate and particular, he re.
quired that the matter should b. fully
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